Previous winners have included Mark Mazower, Antony Beevor, Richard Clogg and Bruce Clark.
| Year | Name | Work | Editor |
|---|
| 1986 | David Constantine | Travellers in Greece | Cambridge University Press |
| 1987 | No award | - | - |
| 1988 | John S. Koliopoulos | Brigands with a Cause:Brigandage and Irredentism in Modern Greece, 1820-1921 | Oxford University Press |
| 1989 | Rowland J. Mainstone | Hagia Sophia: Architecture,Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church | Thames and Hudson |
| 1990 | John Gould | Herodotus | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| 1991 | Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones | The Academic Papers | Oxford University Press |
| 1992 | Mark Mazower | Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis | Oxford University Press |
| 1992 | Antony Beevor | Crete: the Battle and the Resistance | John Murray |
| 1993 | Richard Clogg | A Concise History of Greece | Cambridge University Press |
| 1994 | Paul Magdalino | The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 | Cambridge University Press |
| 1995 | Roderick Beaton | An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature | Oxford University Press |
| 1996 | Sir John Boardman | The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity | Thames and Hudson |
| 1996 | Dr Rosemary Morris | Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118 | Cambridge University Press |
| 1997 | Andrew Dalby | Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece | Routledge |
| 1997 | Oliver Rackham & Jennifer Moody | The Making of the Cretan Landscape | Manchester University Press |
| 1997 | Gelina Harlaftis | A History of Greek-owned Shipping: the Making of an International Tramp Fleet, 1830 to the present day | Routledge |
| 1997 | Nigel Spivey | Understanding Greek Sculpture:Ancient Meanings, Modern Readings | Thames and Hudson |
| 1998 | George Cawkwell | Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War | Routledge |
| 1998 | Dr Martin West | The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth | Clarendon Press, Oxford |
| 1998 | Prof. Robin Cormack | Painting and the Soul: Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds | Reaktion Books |
| 1998 | Patricia Storace | Dinner with Persephone | Granta Books |
| 1999 | Ian MacNiven | Lawrence Durrell: a Biography | Faber & Faber |
| 1999 | Christopher Stray | Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 | Clarendon Press, Oxford |
| 1999 | Dr Jenny March | Dictionary of Classical Mythology | Cassell |
| 2000 | Prof. J. V. Luce | Celebrating Homer’s Landscapes | Yale University Press |
| 2000 | Dr Reviel Netz | The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History | Cambridge University Press |
| 2001 | Dr Cyprian Broodbank | An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades | Cambridge University Press |
| 2002 | James Whitley | The Archaeology of Ancient Greece | Cambridge University Press |
| 2003 | Sir John Boardman | The Archaeology of Nostalgia:How the Greeks re-created their Mythical Past | Thames and Hudson |
From 2004, prizes have been awarded for books published in the UK and Greece in the previous year:
| Year | Name | Work | Editor |
|---|
| 2004 | Roderick Beaton | George Seferis – Waiting for the Angel – A Biography | Yale University Press |
| 2005 | Mark Mazower | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews | Harper Collins |
| 2006 | Robin Lane Fox | The Classical World | Time Warner Book Group |
| Tom Holland | Persian Fire | Allen Lane |
| 2007 | Bruce Clark | Twice a Stranger | Granta Books |
| Robert Holland & Diana Markides | The British and the Hellenes | Oxford University Press |
| 2008 | Imogen Grundon | The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury | Libri Publications |
| 2009 | K.E. Fleming | Greece - A Jewish History | Princeton University Press |
| 2010 | Juliet du Boulay | Cosmos, Life and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village | Denise Harvey Publishers |
| 2011 | Molly Greene | Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean | Princeton University Press |
| Emily Greenwood | Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the 20th Century | Oxford University Press |
| 2012 | Peter Thonemann | The Maeander Valley | Cambridge University Press |
| 2013 | Simon Goldhill | Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy | Oxford University Press |
| 2014 | Roderick Beaton | Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution[2] | Cambridge University Press |
| 2015 | Armand M. Leroi | The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2016 | Sharon E. J. Gerstel | Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium | Cambridge University Press |
| 2017a (jointly) | Ivan Drpić | Epigram, Art and Devotion in Later Byzantium | Cambridge University Press |
| 2017b (jointly) | Marc Domingo Gygax | Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City | Cambridge University Press |
1. ^Runciman Award goes to two winners, Kathimerini (edition in English), page 6, Life / Books section, Thursday, June 7, 2007
2. ^The Runciman Award 2014 goes to Byron’s War